How To Use Blunted In A Sentence
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The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it.
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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Further multilateral agreements to control nuclear weapons were both welcome to CND and blunted its cutting edge.
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The two slaves were ready at repartee, but the utter simplicity of the sultan displayed a blockishness which blunted all edge.
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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The latest bombing has blunted residents' hopes for peace.
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Northern-dominated government may have blunted the appeal of the development discourse among the majority of south-eastern voters.
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Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears.
Matthew Bishop: 'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)?
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A blunted erythropoietic response to physiologic stimuli has been noted in critically ill patients.
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Judicial response to human rights cannot be blunted by legal jugglery.
Outlook India
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Lack of sleep blunted her thinking.
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Let them vanish like water away ; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
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He's tanned, there's a puckish glint in his eye and his Coventry accent is proudly unblunted by his years in academia.
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Working under those financial strictures does not seem to have blunted his ambition, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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During the rigged tournament, Claudius and Laertes give Hamlet a blunted sword while Laertes' weapon is sharpened and poisoned.
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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Of course we all lap up the details, but the sheer volume of wandering trousers in the modern age has blunted moral outrage.
Times, Sunday Times
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Whether the chemical is alcohol, narcotics, cocaine, or nth-generation selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, their effects tend to become blunted over time.
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One bull after another was driven in roaring, and as here they are generally fierce and their horns not blunted as in Mexico, it is a much more dangerous affair.
Life in Mexico, During a Residence of Two Years in That Country
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Any sallies into Ballyhaunis territory by the St. Colman's lads were usually blunted by the bulwark of the stout-hearted Ballyhaunis defence whose confidence and commitment was never once dented on this occasion.
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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[- 24 -] And they would have perished utterly, but for the fact that some of the pikes of the barbarians were bent and others were broken, while the bowstrings snapped under the constant shooting, the missiles were all discharged, every sword blunted, and, chief of all, that the men themselves grew weary of the slaughter.
Dio's Rome, Volume 2 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus; and Now Presented in English Form. Second Volume Extant Books 36-44 (B.C.
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The sharp medical edge of her lecture would be blunted towards the end by placing the Black Death in its broader context.
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Scratches etched where a million scrapes had blunted the tips of misguided attempts to put the key in lock seemed like ditches in the copper and brass whereas the dark recess of the key hole looked huge and looming.
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Of course, if it's not correct, Clinton's camp can claim they "blunted" the rollout with their wins.
Obama Spokesman: We Don't Have Any Secret Bloc Of Super-Delegates
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Age hadn't blunted his passion for adventure.
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Let them vanish like water away ; when they draw the bow, let their arrows be blunted.
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Lack of sleep blunted her thinking.
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It has blunted sporadic attacks from politicians, but its government funding is periodically threatened.
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The Australians were sort of, well they were self-deprecating and they sort of realized their own foibles and that sort of kind of blunted some criticism by being that way.
CNN Transcript Feb 10, 2002
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Lack of sleep blunted her thinking.
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Working under those financial strictures does not seem to have blunted his ambition, though.
Times, Sunday Times
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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Both involved mounted combat with lances; the former was a peaceful joust, using blunted lances and seeking to score points by splintering lances, the latter was a warlike joust, using pointed lances with unhorsing the principal aim.
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Instead they encourage mediocrity to flourish and this is now the third consecutive pitch upon which any cutting edge has been blunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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As I reported in another recent post fetal alcohol exposure in early pregnancy or during the full length of pregnancy in rhesus macaque monkeys resulted in macaques that had blunted responses to stimuli.
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it.
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And though his income, as you know, was so small, he never ran in debt, and by an exact but open oeconomy, escaped all imputation of meanness: while by forbearing either to conceal, or repine at his limited fortune, he blunted even the raillery of the dissipated, by frankly and good humouredly meeting it half way.
Camilla
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But local issues and clan loyalties blunted the rivalry.
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Dodd proposes a consumer protection agency -- but wants it to be a part of the Federal Reserve, where it would be likely to have its sword blunted by the conventional wisdoms of central bankers and economists (no doubt with Wall Street whispering in their ears).
'The Road From Ruin': Would Dodd's Solutions Create More Useless Bureaucracy (Think Homeland Security)?
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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Anhedonic alcoholics may have blunted cortisol response to psychological stress.
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Northern-dominated government may have blunted the appeal of the development discourse among the majority of south-eastern voters.
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Of course we all lap up the details, but the sheer volume of wandering trousers in the modern age has blunted moral outrage.
Times, Sunday Times
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In the disposition both of his troops and provinces the chagan exposed the vassals, whose lives he disregarded, [33] to the first assault; and the swords of the enemy were blunted before they encountered the native valor of the Avars.
History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4
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In an animal model of hepatopulmonary syndrome, NO-dependent increases in HO - 1 expression appeared to contribute to the blunted hypoxic pressor response seen in this condition.
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I considered Butto, but all the corruption charges kind of blunted the message.
C in C
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Instead of the lithe enthusiast with flaming eyes he saw a heavily built man with blunted features, wearing powerful horn spectacles, his expression morose, his movements ungainly.
The Altar Steps
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By the time you're downstairs all enthusiasm has been blunted somewhat, and you hit the streets with a slight feeling of irritation.
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He watched in disbelief as the attack was so quickly blunted.
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Thus, freedom of speech is converted from a human right into a tool of oppression that must be blunted by force.
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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I am mired in intangibles which impeccably intermesh with static neurones still firing blanks ...there is no disorientation quite like the bared walls of blunted rectitude
Archive 2009-03-01
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In a statement Wednesday, the Justice Department said that the deal would have "blunted" Yahoo's ability to compete on search pages where it chose to implement Google ads.
Google Ditches Ad Pact With Yahoo
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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The institution of liability insurance has blunted and it has removed the deterrent effect of tort law, because those who carry out the acts do not pay the damages, their insurance company does.
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Her sharp cheekbones blunted themselves, and her nose was once again too narrow, the chin round and stubborn.
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The beam let path in the outer flow field of a blunted flyer was calculated.
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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Rising home values have propped up a stagnant economy and blunted criticisms of otherwise disastrous economic policies.
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bad weather blunted their enthusiasm for camping.
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He was in his ninth decade but the famous palate remained unblunted.
Times, Sunday Times
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Terror blunted her feelings
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There might have been withheld from the Saviour those strong religious consolations, those clear views of the justice and goodness of God, which would have blunted his pains and soothed his agonies.
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The wits of our people have been blunted, their habits bestialized, their very climate and landscape ruined.
South Wind
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The unwarranted use of walkouts and boycotts has blunted their efficacy.
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The difference between string timbres and percussion timbres is intentionally blunted here.
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The blocks are not waterworn, their angles being only a little blunted; they vary in size from one or two feet in diameter to ten, or even more than twenty times as much.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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By using the same generic convention — the recipe — to mock formulaic fiction that seemingly "blunted" the mind, reviewers also created a new generic technology that was as manufactured as its target.
Haunted Britain in the 1970s
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In the middle of the well-worn floor stood two of their number, wielding blunted swords that had been scaled specifically to their size.
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My recent bad experience has rather blunted my enthusiasm for travel.
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These lines seem to consist of a fluid matter, which seems to have exsuded in circular zones, as their edges appear blunted or retracted; and the septarium seems to have split easier in such sections parallel to its equator.
The Botanic Garden A Poem in Two Parts. Part 1: the Economy of Vegetation
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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I dropped my tool on its point, which blunted it, so the left side is less worked and detailed than the right side.
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In many ways, this is an improvement: much of my arrogance has been blunted, my naievity informed, my rigidness relaxed, my flightiness settled.
Hello, Goodbye | Her Bad Mother
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Thoughts of heaven merely blunted the urge for revolution by its promises of future blessedness.
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Most people felt Mr Major fought a pretty mealy-mouthed campaign in which radical ideas were either dropped or blunted.
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Years of absence from such work had blunted my language abilities.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Six years away from the pressurised tracks of Europe doesn't seem to have blunted his competitive edge.
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This sense of exhilaration was only slightly blunted by the realisation that a Martin Kelner-esque TV review of Martin Kelner's TV programme in Martin Kelner's Monday slot might be slightly too meta, too incestuously spliced even for these pages.
Gary Lineker's jokes have you itching for a touch of punk from Africa | Barney Ronay
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Probe for the source of this stifled mirth, and you'll find out that on April 20th many spend the day toking, smoking, sparking it, getting blunted, and taking a few to the head.
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Blunted by the power of an animated Will Ferrell, the debut of "Unstoppable" proved, well, stoppable.
BOX OFFICE: Reigning champ 'Megamind' (and 'SNL' parody) derails 'Unstoppable'
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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What walks I took alone, down muddy lanes, in the bad winter weather, carrying that parlour, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone in it, everywhere: a monstrous load that I was obliged to bear, a daymare that there was no possibility of breaking in, a weight that brooded on my wits, and blunted them!
David Copperfield
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Thus had her first sense of horror been blunted, and blushless become her keen, womanly shame.
Hubert's Wife A Story for You
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Likewise he can speak out on environmental issues unencumbered by the focus-group fudges that blunted his election campaign.
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Blunted neurohormonal responses to serotonergic agents are found in major depression and suicidal behavior, but there have been no prospective studies of their relationship to later suicide attempt.
Naturejobs - All Jobs
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Seidl's paintings, with their blunted contours, blending chroma and reticulate brushwork, are all about flux, immanence and the mutating visual field.
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The constant repetition of violence has blunted the human response to it.
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Among these so - called'sows " the delicacy we associate with teenage girls has evidently been blunted.
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The beam let path in the outer flow field of a blunted flyer was calculated.
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Our preoccupation with class and social etiquette had blunted our competitive edge.
Times, Sunday Times
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Age hadn't blunted his passion for adventure.
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blunted emotions
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Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday colloguing with Vulcan to forge heavier and sharper thunderbolts; Thursday, Friday and Saturday conferring anxiously with all Olympus as to how they shall be blunted and lightened, lest they hurt poor mortal fools too much.
Ambrotox and Limping Dick
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The desolation of seeing his supposedly infallible moral sword blunted and useless, the first time he'd ever really got to unsheathe it.
Country of the Blind
